IAM @ CloudThat

Posted on October 5, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

Identity and Access Management (IAM) on AWS is an authentication and authorization service to provide access for multiple users to AWS resources. To know about how the permissions work and their hierarchy, check out this link.

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AWS Identity & Access Management – Best Practices

Posted on September 9, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(1)

Security is a critical aspect for any organization. This blog focuses on the account security measure provided by AWS – IAM. IAM stands for Identity and Access Management and is used for controlling access to AWS services and resources. There are no additional charges for using IAM.

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Migration of infrastructure from EC2 Classic to EC2 VPC

Posted on September 7, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

EC2-Classic to EC2-VPC Migration

Your AWS account might support both EC2-Classic and EC2-VPC, depending on when the AWS account was created and regions used.

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Getting started with Docker on Azure

Posted on September 7, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

Docker is on the verge of becoming one of the most popular virtualization approaches which uses Linux containers as a way to segregate application data and underlying infrastructure on your shared resources rather than virtual machines. Docker automates the deployment of any application as a portable, self-sufficient container which will run almost anywhere – including Microsoft Azure.

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Docker: Game changer in the world of Cloud and Virtualization

Posted on September 4, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

Docker is an open source container service which provides lightweight alternative to heavy and complex virtual machines. It allows developer to package the whole application with its dependencies and stacks into a box which here is referred as a container, which will be in an isolated environment.

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Registering and Preparing for the EX210 – Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack Exam

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Sangram Rath | Comments(4)

OpenStack is the most popular private cloud platform available in the market today and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform is a secure, stable and enterprise-ready offering of OpenStack from Red Hat that has been co-engineered with the OpenStack foundation for performance and hence is one of the most preferred platforms for many enterprises.

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Migrate your pre-configured Windows Instance from on-premise or AWS to Azure

Posted on August 20, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(13)

IT industry today is fast paced compared to any other industries in this century. Growth, Upgrade, Mobility, Availability are the buzz words in today’s world. This is the only industry which is more fashion driven than women’s fashion. With the growth of Cloud Computing, people are moving their existing infrastructure to Cloud.

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Cassandra Multi-AZ Data Replication

Posted on August 19, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(7)

Apache Cassandra is an open source non-relational/NOSQL database. It is massively scalable and is designed to handle large amounts of data across multiple servers (Here, we shall use Amazon EC2 instances), providing high availability. In this blog, we shall replicate data across nodes running in multiple Availability Zones (AZs) to ensure reliability and fault tolerance

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Migration from relational database to NoSQL database

Posted on August 19, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

Relational database model was proposed in 1970, since then we are using RDBMS for most of the applications. But this model is having a hard time keeping pace with the volume, velocity, and variety of data. To keep pace with growing data storage needs, NoSQL databases were introduced in which the focus has shifted from relationships in data, to have a scalable solution to store large volumes of data.

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Implementation of Custom Cloudwatch Metric in Amazon Web Services

Posted on August 19, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(4)

Metrics are used to monitor various resources in Amazon Web Services like EBS volumes, EC2 instances and RDS instances. Apart from the pre-defined metrics in AWS, sometimes monitoring is required for additional service parameters. For creating a user defined metric, AWS has introduced custom metrics in CloudWatch.

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